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  • Secretariat: SCC
    Committee Manager:
    Mrs Christine Geraghty
  • Chairperson (until end 2026):
    Ms Zakiah Kassam
    Vice chairperson (until end 2024):
    Mr Daniel Trillos
  • ISO Technical Programme Manager [TPM]:
    Ms Monja Korter
    ISO Editorial Manager [EM]:
    Ms Nicola Perou
  • Creation date: 1993

Scope

Standardization in the field of environmental management to address environmental and climate impacts, including related social and economic aspects, in support of sustainable development.

Excluded:

  • test methods of pollutants, setting limit values and levels of environmental performance, and standardization of products.
Note 1: TC 207 is focused on environmental management systems, auditing, verification/validation and related investigations, environmental labelling, environmental performance evaluation, life cycle assessment, climate change and its mitigation and adaptation, ecodesign, material efficiency, environmental economics and environmental and climate finance.

Note 2: Where appropriate, the ISO/TC 207 works in cooperation with existing committees on subjects that may support environmental management.

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Sustainable Development Goals

This committee contributes with 1 standard to the following Sustainable Development Goal:

13
Climate Action
70

Published ISO standards *

of which 2 under the direct responsibility of ISO/TC 207

25

ISO standards under development *

83
Participating members
43
Observing members

* number includes updates

Reference Title Type
ISO/TC 207/SC 1 Environmental management systems Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/SC 2 Environmental auditing and related practices Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/SC 3 Environmental labelling Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/SC 4 Environmental performance evaluation Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/SC 5 Life cycle assessment Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/SC 7 Greenhouse gas and climate change management and related activities Subcommittee
ISO/TC 207/DCCG   Developing Countries Coordination Group Working group
ISO/TC 207/SLG   Strategic Leadership Group Working group
ISO/TC 207/STTF   Spanish translation task force Working group
ISO/TC 207/TCG   Terminology Coordination Group Working group
ISO/TC 207/TF 1   Communications Working group
ISO/TC 207/TG 1   Sustainable Finance Coordination Working group
ISO/TC 207/TG 2   Circular economy coordination Working group
Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 207

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 207:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
IEC/TC 111 Environmental standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems IEC
ISO/CASCO Committee on conformity assessment ISO
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 40 IT service management and IT governance ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 8 Ships and marine technology ISO
ISO/TC 8/SC 25 Maritime GHG reduction ISO
ISO/TC 22 Road vehicles ISO
ISO/TC 45 Rubber and rubber products ISO
ISO/TC 46/SC 11 Archives/records management ISO
ISO/TC 61 Plastics ISO
ISO/TC 67/SC 8 Arctic operations ISO
ISO/TC 69 Applications of statistical methods ISO
ISO/TC 71/SC 8 Environmental management for concrete and concrete structures ISO
ISO/TC 83 Sports and other recreational facilities and equipment ISO
ISO/TC 91 Surface active agents ISO
ISO/TC 122/SC 4 Packaging and the environment ISO
ISO/TC 130 Graphic technology ISO
ISO/TC 146 Air quality ISO
ISO/TC 146/SC 1 Stationary source emissions ISO
ISO/TC 147 Water quality ISO
ISO/TC 176 Quality management and quality assurance ISO
ISO/TC 197/SC 1 Hydrogen at scale and horizontal energy systems ISO
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics ISO
ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnologies ISO
ISO/TC 251 Asset management ISO
ISO/TC 265 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage ISO
ISO/TC 266 Biomimetics ISO
ISO/TC 268 Sustainable cities and communities ISO
ISO/TC 268/SC 1 Smart community infrastructures ISO
ISO/TC 297 Waste collection and transportation management ISO
ISO/TC 298 Rare earth ISO
ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies ISO
ISO/TC 309 Governance of organizations ISO
ISO/TC 322 Sustainable finance ISO
ISO/TC 323 Circular economy ISO

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 207

ISO/TC 207 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/CASCO Committee on conformity assessment ISO
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 39 Sustainability, IT and data centres ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 8 Ships and marine technology ISO
ISO/TC 8/SC 2 Marine environment protection ISO
ISO/TC 46/SC 11 Archives/records management ISO
ISO/TC 59/SC 14 Design life ISO
ISO/TC 59/SC 17 Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering works ISO
ISO/TC 61 Plastics ISO
ISO/TC 68 Financial services ISO
ISO/TC 71/SC 8 Environmental management for concrete and concrete structures ISO
ISO/TC 91 Surface active agents ISO
ISO/TC 122/SC 4 Packaging and the environment ISO
ISO/TC 131 Fluid power systems ISO
ISO/TC 146 Air quality ISO
ISO/TC 146/SC 1 Stationary source emissions ISO
ISO/TC 147 Water quality ISO
ISO/TC 176 Quality management and quality assurance ISO
ISO/TC 190/SC 7 Impact assessment ISO
ISO/TC 197 Hydrogen technologies ISO
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics ISO
ISO/TC 224 Drinking water, wastewater and stormwater systems and services ISO
ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnologies ISO
ISO/TC 251 Asset management ISO
ISO/TC 265 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage ISO
ISO/TC 268/SC 1 Smart community infrastructures ISO
ISO/TC 309 Governance of organizations ISO
ISO/TC 322 Sustainable finance ISO
ISO/TC 323 Circular economy ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
ANEC The European consumer voice in standardisation A
BCI Blockchain & Climate Institute A
CEPI Confederation of European Paper Industries A
CI Consumers International A
EC - European Commission European Commission A
ECOLOGIA ECOlogists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Initiatives and Action A
ECOS (Environment) Environmental Coalition on Standards A
EDF Environmental Defense Fund A
EEB European Environmental Bureau A
EFCA/FIDIC International Federation of Consulting Engineers A
ENEP European Network of Environmental Professionals A
GEN Global Ecolabelling Network A
IAF International Accreditation Forum, Inc. A
IAI - aluminium International Aluminium Institute A
IAQ International Academy for Quality A
ICC - commerce International Chamber of Commerce A
IEA - énergie International Energy Agency A
IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development A
INEM International Network for Environmental Management A
INLAC Latinoamerican Institute for Quality Assurance A
IQNet IQNet Association - The International Certification Network A
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD A
SBS - Small Business Standards Small Business Standards A
SIERRA Club Sierra Club A
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development A
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme A
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change A
WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development A
WFSGI World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry A
World Steel Association World Steel Association A
WRI World Resources Institute A
APO Asian Productivity Organization B
ITC International Trade Centre B
WHO World Health Organization B
WTO World Trade Organization B

Date Month Location TC/SC Note
21 November 2024 Virtual () ISO/TC 207/SC 5  
9-10 December 2024 Virtual () ISO/TC 207  
19 December 2024 Virtual () ISO/TC 207/SC 2  

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

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